As the first third week in November approaches in relative peace and hope, we express our thanks to the many Americans of many kinds who, in many ways, made it so...

18 November, 2022

The campaigns of individual candidates often have theme songs; this year's midterms seem to have a theme *album* and *film,* Talking Heads 1984 live opus, "Stop Making Sense"...

01 November, 2022

Public education has long been one of the pillars upon which democracy has been built. Today, it's under siege, and like elementary math, the solutions are both simple and hard...

15 October, 2022

Our flag and Constitution are both tapestries in support of our more perfect union. Our founding documentis increasingly multi- hued, but is our flag--and our democracy--unfurling or unraveling?...

05 October, 2022

The hard times ahead will require and provide a plethora of opportunities for small business and entrepreneurs to stand up, step out, lean in, deal and deliver for the home team...

14 September, 2022

It's a highly infectious disease of the economy in which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. There's no vaccine, no known cure, but there could be new treatments derived from an old remedy...

30 August, 2022

Journalists describe the current state of their industry as "struggling" and in "chaos," but they're a lot more positive about their work than the public, and therein lie the beginnings of hope...

12 August, 2022

On July 8th, investigative journalist Amanda Ripley broke a story in the Washington Post that was apparently news to many of her peers, but not to wide swaths of the American public across the political spectrum...

03 August, 2022

There's fetid talk of 1861 in the air, but to truly make America great again, we'll have to reach further back than that, all the way to 1776, this time to fight a war for interdependence...

15 July, 2022
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